Chat with a book, page by page
A four-hundred-page set text is hard to hold in your head. Ask about a thread that runs across chapters, and follow the page references back into the book.
Questions to ask a book
The difficulty with a long book is not any single page, it is the distance between pages. An argument in chapter nine rests on a definition made in chapter two. A name that mattered on page 40 returns on page 310 as though you had been holding it in mind the whole time. By the conclusion you can follow every sentence and still have lost the route the author took to get there. Asking the book questions closes that distance: what part two is claiming, where an idea was introduced, how a later chapter answers an earlier one, which passages a recurring theme actually turns up in. Each reply carries the page it drew on, so instead of thumbing backwards through hundreds of pages after a half-remembered paragraph, you land on it.
What it will not do is bring the outside world in. Ask what critics made of the novel, how it compares with a book you have not uploaded, or what the author probably meant given their biography, and you will be told that is not in this document. For a set text that restraint is the useful behaviour rather than a limitation, because an essay stands or falls on what you can show the book doing, and the answers point you at pages where you can check whether it really does. The same completeness cuts the other way while you are still reading: it can draw on any page in the book, including chapters you have not reached yet. Ask about the chapter you are in, and keep the question that narrow.
What you get, on every document
- Answers that cite the page
- Replies name the pages they came from, as chips that scroll the viewer straight there so you can read the source yourself.
- Grounded in your document
- It answers from the file you uploaded and says so plainly when your question is not covered, rather than inventing something plausible.
- PDFs up to 25 MB
- One document per chat, shown beside the conversation with real text selection — highlight a passage and ask about that exact part.
- Scans read automatically
- Pages with no selectable text are read with OCR instead, page by page, so a scanned or photographed document still works.
- Six interface languages
- English, Bangla, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic and German — and replies come back in whichever language you ask in.
- Turn it into practice
- The same document can become practice multiple-choice questions, spaced-repetition review and mock exams once you have read it.
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Books FAQ
Will it tell me what the book means, or only what it says?
It stays with what the book says and how its parts fit together. It will gather what an author argues across several chapters, trace a definition back to where it was introduced, and lay out the steps of a case with pages cited. It will not import criticism, theory or historical context from outside the file, and where your question has no answer in the book it says so instead of producing one.
Can I find a passage I only half remember?
Often, yes. Describe what you remember — a scene, a claim, a phrase that is not quite right — and you are pointed to the pages that look like it, which beats hunting when you cannot recall the exact wording to search for. Read the printed line before you quote it: what you remember and what is actually on the page are sometimes not the same sentence.
Does it work for novels as well as non-fiction?
Yes, with different questions. For a novel the useful ones tend to be who a character is, when something was established, where a theme comes back, and whether a line belongs to the narrator or is being quoted. It has read the book and not the study guides written about it, so what comes back is the text rather than the received reading of it.
Will it give away what happens later in the book?
It can. A question is answered from wherever in the book the answer sits, and nothing tells it how far you have read. A general question about the ending or a character's fate will be answered from wherever the answer sits. If you are reading along and want to stay unspoilt, tie your questions to a chapter or a page range and ask about what you have already read.
Start with the chapter you are stuck in
Upload the book, ask what the argument is doing, and read the page the answer points to.